Ware nagara hodo naki yo wa ya oshikaramu nao yama no ha ni ariake no tsuki - Senzai Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

我ながらほどなき夜はや惜しからむ
なほ山の端に有明の月

Roma-ji: Ware nagara hodo naki yo wa ya oshikaramu nao yama no ha ni ariake no tsuki
English Translation: Even I myself,
do I so regret this night
so short in passing?
Still upon the mountain rim
the moon lingers at the dawn
Meaning: Do I myself so regret this brief summer night? Look: the moon still lingers at dawn upon the mountain rim.
Commentary: Book Three Summer Poems 215

Headnote: "Composed on the topic 'The Dawn Moon of a Summer Night'"
Composed on the topic "The Dawn Moon of a Summer Night." As the brief summer night turns to dawn, the poet wonders at himself for regretting so short a night so much, and sees the dawn moon still lingering at the mountain rim, as though it too grieved for the night. His own regret for the night and the moon remaining on the ridge are made to mirror each other. Poems on the summer moon begin here.
The author, "Fujiwara no Tsuneie Ason," was the son of Fujiwara no Shigeie. A poet of the Rokujō Fujiwara house, he later rose to Senior Third Rank.
This poem and the next two, through 217, form a sequence on the summer moon.

First line, "ware nagara": "even I myself."
Second line, "hodo naki yo wa ya": "hodo naki" means brief, the short summer night, and the interrogative "ya" links with "mu" in the third line.
Third line, "oshikaramu": "mu," the attributive of conjecture, closes with "ya": "is it so regrettable?" The poem pauses here.
Fourth line, "nao yama no ha ni": "nao" means "still."
Fifth line, "ariake no tsuki": ends on a noun, the moon still in the sky after dawn. Poem 161 of this book also ends with "ariake no tsuki."
Author: Fujiwara no Tsuneie
Source: Senzai Wakashu
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